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Women in George Washington's world /
"This volume highlights some of the women Washington knew: women who admired and memorialized him; women who provided him love and solace; women who frustrated him; women who worked for or against him. The essays reveal the lives of a diverse group of women, from plantation mistresses to enslav...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Mother of the Father: Memorializing Mary Washington in Antebellum Virginia / Kate Haulman
- "She Did Not Come Up to 'Ole Mistis' in Mammy's Eyes!": Relationships between the Women, Enslaved and Free, of Mount Vernon / Mary V. Thompson
- Service and Sacrifice: Martha Washington / Lynn Price Robbins
- "The Tender Heart of the Chief Could Not Support the Scene": General Washington, Margaret
- Arnold, and the Treason at West Point / Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
- George Washington and Phillis Wheatley: The Indispensable Man and the Poet Laureate of the American Revolution / James Basker
- Abigail Adams and the President's Portrait / Sara Georgini
- "You Are Welcome to Eat at Her Table": Elizabeth Willing Powel's World of Philadelphia / Samantha Snyder
- "I Had Friends among the Colored People of the Town": The Enslaved Women of the President's Household and Philadelphia's African American Community / George W. Boudreau
- Invalid Juggernaut: Ann Pamela Cunningham and Her Quest to Save George Washington's Mount Vernon / Ann Bay Goddin.